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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 9, 2021
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Biology
Intelligent Design
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Sea slugs cut off their own heads and grow a new body

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March 9, 2021
Biology, Intelligent Design
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Gizmodo: Mitoh’s team suggested that autotomy in the wild could happen in Elysia atroviridis because the slug is regularly encumbered with planktonic parasites—perhaps leaving a parasite-ridden body behind to grow a new one is the easiest way of dealing with the infestation. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 8, 2021
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Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
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This time, human evolution was shaped by a quest for tasty food

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March 8, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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The problem journalists always seem to leave hanging when writing about new theories of human evolution is, for example: If early humans weren’t smart already, they would not have learned how to control fire. If they weren’t aesthetically sensitive, they wouldn’t have noticed aesthetic differences in taste. Darwinist theories about the human mind seem to be one long parade of affirming the consequent. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 7, 2021
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Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
theism
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Eric Metaxas interviews Stephen Meyer on his new book

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March 7, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
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Meyer: Historian of science Frederic Burnham has stated that the God hypothesis is now a more respectable hypothesis than at any time in the last one hundred years. The Return of the God Hypothesis looks at three critical sources of evidence. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 7, 2021
Categories
Fine tuning
Intelligent Design
Multiverse
Physics
theism
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At The Conversation: Can the laws of physics disprove God?

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March 7, 2021
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics, theism
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This seems to be a rather light piece intellectually but it gives some sense of what the wine bar would be saying about God and science if COVID-19 crazy hadn’t put it out of business: "But God isn’t a valid scientific explanation. The theory of the multiverse, instead, solves the mystery because it allows different universes to have different physical laws. So it’s not surprising that we should happen to see ourselves in one of the few universes that could support life. Of course, you can’t disprove the idea that a God may have created the multiverse." Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 7, 2021
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Atheism
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
theism
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Kurt Gödel was unhappy with atheism and finally he blasted one fashionable type to smithereens

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March 7, 2021
Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, theism
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More scandalous still, Gödel was not a Darwinist: “I believe that mechanism in biology is a prejudice of our time which will be disproved.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 6, 2021
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Information
Intelligent Design
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C. Elegans (roundworm) perceives color without eyes

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March 6, 2021
Information, Intelligent Design
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At The Scientist: The new results show that the worms are “actually comparing ratios of wavelengths, and using that information to make decisions,” he says. “And that, I think, was completely surprising and unexpected.” … Read More ›